The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-19
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| The Prince of Wales is referred to in
one OF the London daily papers as
1.-THE fat little bald man"
Biondin, the famous tight-rope walk
er, will return TO this country before
long after an absence of twenty years.
Seats in the San Francisco stock-ex-
change, which have sold as high as
$40. 900, can now be bought for IS, 900
to $1,000.
In the piney woods of Georgia a
hunting party recently captured a
deer, a large gray fox, and large tur-
key cock
| The increase in the receipts from
the sale of stamps in the postoffice at
| Chattanooga, Tenn, was nearly $13,-
900 last year.
w. L. Trenholm, United States
Comptroller of the Currency, is tall,
1.-the man, with dark eyes, gray hair
and gray mustache-
The first baby born in South Sioux
City. Neb.. was given a serenade by
| the band and presented with a corner
lot in that promising town.
A witty Maryland maiden defends
herself for her extra large hustle by
| saying that she is not responsible for
what goes on behind her back.
A Plymouth. ILL.,, man attempted to
chastise a COW by kicking her in the
nose. He missed his aim, and his
leg struck her sharp horn and he was
impaled.
A Houston, Tex, woman has a pet
alligator that wags his tail when his
name is called. Owing to the long
carvers he carries in his jaw he is
named Bowie.
An English statistician has discov-
cred that in every 1000 bachelors
there are thirty-eight criminals, while
among married men the ratio is only
eighteen per 1000.
The marchioness of Salisbury is an
expert shot with the bow. The For
esters of Arden gave her the freedom
of their society in diploma richly en-
blazoned and placed in a box of heart
of oak.
A long, thin youth of Pittsburg can
initiate a steam whistle perfectly. The
other day the hands in one of the fac
tories quit work at half past IL when
they heard him toot. They thought it
was noon.
Henry S. Ives is now by many con-
sidered the coming financier of New
York. He has purchased a pleasure
yacht, for which he gave the neat lit
tie sum of $S7, 900 out of his profits for
four weeks.
A coroner's jurN at the inquest of
man killed while walking on a double
track railroad. brought in verdict of
accidental death; deceased, being
cross-eyed, was unable to tell on which
track the train was coming"
At a trial at the Clay County, Geor-
gia, Court the other day two witnesses
were put upon the stand who did not
know who made them, had never heard |
of heaven or hell, and did not know |
whether lie was right or wrong.
An Albany gentleman asked a cab
inet-maker to tell him how old piece |
of furniture was which was .'gen-
uine antique" The cabinet-maker |
looked at the piece and said: 1.-The |
process of veneering was invented in |
1906"
When burglar awoke a young lady |
in Portland, Me-, lately, instead of |
putting pistol to her head he kissed |
her and said, Keep still, sis; | won't |
hurt YOU" Then he took his bundle |
containing everything portable in the
house.
Said NJ. Clemenceau in his paper,
Justice: IN. Paul de Cassagnac is |
above all monarchist. but for what
monarch we cannot say" Replied M.
Paul de Cassagnac in his paper, Autor-
ite, "For what monarchp For the
one who will first turn you out and
then run you in!''
The Claiming club is the latest
thing in society in Boston. 1t is COM
posed entirely of young Unitarian
ministers, and the membership is lin
tied to one hundred. Hearty work for
the Unitarian church is what the So
ciety was formed to do.
Claret drinkers will be interested to
learn that the famous Clos-Vougeot
vineyards are about to be sold by pub
lie auction. The upset price is f48, ,OOO
Attached to the vineyards is manor
house of the sixteenth century and
cellars capable of holding 5000 casks.
A solid citizen of Wisconsin was so
mad on returning home to find that
during his absence his wife had had
the shade trees in front trimmed so
that their beauty was ruined that he
refused to sleep in the house, spent
the night In the barn, caught cold and
died.
The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, the an
archistic preacher, who is creating
sensation in the east, was formerly a
printer in indianapolis, afterward an
actor, and finally entered the ministry
His wife was Miss Ida Gatling. daugh-
ter of the inventor of the Gatling
gun.
The Chinese law requires every
householder to hang at his door list
of the inmates of his house. 1t seems
as though it ought to be easy to make
an accurate census. BY one which
the officials of the empire have re-
Gently afforded, the population is 450,-
900, 900.
Readers of some of the London pa
pers frequently find ghastly-looking
red human skeleton pasted on con-
spicuous part of their paper. This is
not the work of the publishers, but of
an enterprising quack doctor, who
takes this way of advertising his nos
trums.
In Rhode Island factory town a
certain employer recently paid out to
his employees on Saturday night 800
in new bills that had been secretly
marked. On the following Monday
$400 of these marked bills were de-
posted in the bank by the saloonkeep-
ers of the town.
Matthias Splitlog has been swindled
out of $40. 900 in a real estate trans
action at Wyandotte, Kan. Mr.. Split
log is Wyandotte Indian and worth
81, 200, 900. He can neither read nor
write, and is generally very shrewd at
8 bargain. but the real estate agents
were too much for his untutored mind.
A standard thermometer is made
with dial upon which the figures are
as easily read as upon clock. In this
instrument strips of metal, which are
unequally acted upon by heat and cold,
are soldered together in the form of
spirals; the action of the temperature
is multiplied by delicate wheels and
| pinions-
Suspender Jack, the cowboy, who
is now at loggerheads with Capt Bo-
gardus. pants for the latter's blood
with true backwoods feryor. "All l
want, he says, '.is to be in a dark
room with Bogardus- Let each of us
be given gun and cigarette. We
can take aim by the fire in each others
cigarettes"
Hot water from artesian wells Is one
of the looked-for boons. 1t Is thought
reasonable to suppose that hot water
can be obtained almost anywhere if
wofls ara bored deem ennurh the